[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo

[Slater, Joseph]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: Slater, Joseph
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo
> 
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 19:02 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> > I believe we will use the host makeinfo, if that exists, so we
> > won't automatically build texinfo-native.  But, if we are building
> > it at the same time we are trying to run makeinfo, we might get
> > "our" version instead of the host's, and our version might not be
> > fully installed.  At least, that looks like what happened for the
> > build failure this patch attempts to fix.
> 
> It would help to have that in the commit message.
> 
> Equally, does this really solve the problem or does it just move it
> elsewhere as other applications probably use makeinfo too? :/

It does just move it elsewhere.  I don't know if texinfo would be basic
enough to force it to build early (I'm not sure how to do that), or if
we just expect packages that need it to depend on it.

Joe


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard